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Stay at Home Mom Guilt and Rediscovering Yourself with Emilie Karun
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- Jul 21, 2026
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If you love the show and you'd like to support it directly you can tip the host here https://imperfect-adulting.captivate.fm/support Amy Stone speaks with Emilie Karun about breaking free from perfectionist parenting ideals and redefining what it means to want “more than motherhood.” Hailing from central Illinois, Emilie shares her journey from aspiring to be the perfect stay-at-home mom to embracing her own dreams and becoming a life and success coach. The episode explores how societal expectations, family influences, and internal beliefs shape women’s choices, and how Emilie navigated through guilt, identity loss, and self-discovery to create a life and career she loves. About Emilie Karun: Emilie is a life+success coach and founder of The Good Girl Revolution, dedicated to helping women break up with the rules that rule their life so they can claim everything they were taught not to want. Main Topics Covered: Societal pressures and generational messages about women’s value, motherhood, and self-sacrifice, especially for Gen X and Millennials The challenge of losing (or never truly knowing) one’s identity in motherhood—and how motherhood intensifies existing insecurities How extended family dynamics, upbringing, and cultural background can shape both conscious and unconscious life expectations The “good girl” programming and its role in fostering perfectionism, people-pleasing, and self-doubt Breaking free from limiting beliefs and learning to trust one’s own desires, even when they don’t align with prescribed gender roles or family/cultural norms The pivotal role of community, honest conversation, and seeing one’s experience validated by others (“the crack that lets the light in”) How entrepreneurship and life-coaching became transformational tools for self-actualiz…